Comic on Routines

This project is associated to lesson 6 "My Daily Routine"School . 1ESO students of English. This project intends to expand not only the linguistc abilities of 1 ESO students of English but also make them reflect on their personal organization. This project also intends to help students organize personal leisure time in a way that they make the most of it.

Objetives:
  1. Make the students competent to talk about their personal routines
  2. Learn new vocabulary and grammar structures
  3. Find information from themselves by talking to people, using the internet, the teacher´s wiki, etc.
  4. Turn the proccess of learning into a process to generate knowledge
  5. Learn to work and share in a group
  6. Create a comic: either drawing or using technology
  7. Generate group and cooperative creations
  8. Participate in group work in a constructive way, being respectful in every way (to other people´s ideas, turn-taking, etc.)
  9. Insert the final product in the wiki so other people can see, benefit from and enjoy it
Conceptual Contents:
  1. Present Simple
  2. Object Pronouns
  3. Connectors
  4. Time expressions

Procedural Contents:
  1. Vocabulary on routines and computer´s vocabulary
  2. Looking for the appropriate information in order to develop the project
  3. Creation of a comic

Attitudinal Contents:
  1. Reflection on our own routines
  2. Value other´s opinios and ideas
  3. Participation in all discussions that take place in class (similarities and differences between partners, between cultures, etc.)
  4. Development of respect and tolerance while working in groups
  5. Development of a certain artistic expresion to create a comic
  6. Learning to value computers in class, the need to care for them to work on a daily basis, they are not only to entertain ourselves
  7. Develop a sense of personal achivement in creating something interesting for other students

Methodology:

  1. First we will work on the level of linguistic and cognitive competence the students have, then, we will find out their previous knowledge
  2. We will work on learning hands on, learning something that is paractical and fuctional
  3. Learning to Learn since students have to solve vocabulary, grammar problems among the resources provided to the group, the necessity to come to an agreement on how to select info, decide what to present in the comic, respect other people´s opinions, etc.
  4. Students will work cooperatively, will also learn from mistakes and will learn from the teacher who is guiding them
  5. Students are taught to reflect on the whole process and learn skills and strategies that can be used in other situations
  6. Groups: individual work, pair work, group and whole group work.


THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, with respects to the English Language, students need to work on these aspects
-Vocabulary that we need

-Grammar that we need
Grammar (Present Simple)
Grammar (Word order Present Tense)
Simple Connectors
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
http://www.aulafacil.com/CursoIngles/IndexClases.htm
Plus all the material in Teacher´s Wiki Unit 4
http://misshernando.wikispaces.com/UNIT+++++4